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an a mwa br cot oe eee ‘ef eeameetsinste + ween. + rebbiningalt. | -_— Sy David Herman NEW YORK. — An audience of nearly 600 heard Maleclm X speak on “Black Revolution” at an April 8 meeting at Palm Gar- dens under the auspices of the Militant Labor Forum. He was well received by the Negroes who comprised about a quarter of the audience, and by most of the whites, as he out- lined his views on Black Nation- alism, (See announcement, page 1} Some white liberals, however, were visibly disturbed by his seathing indictment of the role of liberalism in the Negro strug- gle and his insistence on an all- black leadership for the Negro movement, : A lively point in the discassica period was a heated exchange between Malcolm X and James Wechsler, liberal editoric1 column- ist for the New York Post. Wechs- ler sought to bolster the press Propaganda smear that Matcolm X is a “hate-monger.” { Open Minde This charge was not cubsthn- tiated for those who came to learn what Malcolm X really stands for and who listened to him with an open mind. A number of such young people later indicated that the meeting had given them a completely different conception of Black Nationalism than they had gotten from the news media. Malcoim X, in turn, welcomed the oportunity to address the meeting and also commended The Militant. In his closing remarks, he said: “F want to thank the Militant Labor Forum for the invitation to speak here this evening. I think as I said earlier, the paper is one of the best I’ve read, We always encourage those in Harem to buy it when we see up there, or where ever else we may see it. It's a very good paper, and I hepe they continue to have success — make progress, They ¢ a: pi obably Straighten out a lot of white peo ple. Let ug straighten out the bisch-seepie.” ed aT ~~... « A Rude Liberal = -- 7° During the question period, he proved deft and firm in straight- ening out those whites who in- vited it. The exchange with Wechsler, for example, began when the liberal journalist tried to take the floor without being recognized. Malcolm X firmly in- sisted that he be seated, observ- ing, “you're being rude. You're proving my point” about white liberalism. He called on several other ques- tloners and then turned back and offered the floor to Wechsler. In a, completely hostile vein, Wechs- ler demanded to know if Mal- coim X intended to pay tribute to Rey, Bruce Klunder, the whité minister who died under a bull dozer in a Cleveland civil right demonstration. f Countering Wechsler’s effort to expleit Rev. Klunder’s death 55 a polemica? point against Black Nationalism, Malcolm X replied Ss the time is long past m | bec 46 apr 30 1964 to the Negro struggle. Tolson Belmont —_. Maicolm X Negroes are going to applaud the contributions of individual whites_, “] didn’t put him under the bulldozer,” he declared, “Uncle Sam put him under the bulldozer. The Supreme Court put him un- der the bulldozer.” Wechsler sought unsuccessfully to continue the debate and ap- —_ parentiy finished what he had to say in a column in the April 13 New York Post devoted to the meeting in which he took an ex- ceedingly dim view of Malcolm X and the Militant Labor Forum. = se PTT oe ork Daily News York Post 2 a New York Times he Worker 2 The New Leader 0 The Wall Street Journal The National Observer 2 People’s World Date _Ap rit 2: O-3I9Z 24. A Militant" NOT RECORDEL , eS =.